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The World in Brief from The Economist
Takaichi Sanae’s landslide victory in Japan; Jimmy Lai’s sentencing, and more
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The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, who became prime minister a few months ago, secured a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house. Also, Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong’s most famous pro-democracy advocates, was sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison.
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